Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2024-2025 menu translation guide

Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2024-2025, or Prospi for short, AKA Professional Baseball Spirits, is a baseball video game by Konami for the PS5 and PC. The game is only available in Japanese, but it looks great and plays well and stars global phenom Shohei Ohtani, so non-Japanese speakers have been interested in playing the game.

There is an English-language option as you start up the game, but it doesn’t affect much. It only translates the main menu, digital instruction manual, and some in-game UI text.

On this page, I’ve edited screenshots of Prospi to show the English language equivalents for what’s on-screen. Hopefully this helps make the game more accessible for someone with little or no Japanese.

Instruction Manual

Here is the official English-language instruction manual provided in-game. I’ve left out page 1, which is just a cover page with the game title.

The main menu is also officially translated when you select English on game startup:

  • Exhibition Game
  • Season – Your typical Franchise mode equivalent. Despite the name, it goes for an unlimited number of seasons.
  • Star Player – Road to the Show equivalent. Control a single player and live out their career and lifestyle.
  • Hakkyu no Kiseki – A high school baseball management mode, very similar to Eikan Nine in the Pawapuro series, but now with an option to directly control players. The name means “White ball miracle.”
  • myBALLPARK – An online team management mode focusing on owner-level decision-making, with player collection and training mechanics a bit like Diamond Dynasty.
  • Spirits – A poker-like mode for training your own custom player. Not like anything in The Show, haha.
  • Live Championship – The mode for direct online PvP games.
  • Live Scenario – Similar to Moments in The Show. Beat short missions based on real NPB games.
  • Grand Prix – Another Diamond Dynasty-like mode. Collect and train a team of players, and make managerial decisions vs. the CPU in-game.
  • Home Run Derby
  • Training
  • Tutorial
  • Roster – View all player attributes for the game’s default roster.
  • Team Edit – Create custom teams. The Arrange mode equivalent, for Pawapuro fans.
  • Prospi Shop – Use in-game currency to power up players, buy new stadiums and legendary players, and buy power-up items for various modes. Also contains links to use real money to buy DLC or power-ups.
  • Settings

In-Game

Japanese for comparison:

The little black and white chiclets beneath player names are their active special abilities. The abilities are almost identical between Pawapuro and Prospi, so you can reference this translation guide by tweav for more information on the special abilities.

These are the one or two-character abbreviations you’ll see everywhere in-game for each position:

  • 投 – Pitcher
  • 捕 – Catcher
  • 一 – First baseman
  • ニ – Second baseman
  • 三 – Third baseman
  • 遊 – Shortstop
  • 左 – Left fielder
  • 中 – Center fielder
  • 右 – Right fielder
  • 指 – Designated hitter
  • 内 – Infielder
  • 外 – Outfielder
  • 代打 – Pinch hitter
  • 代走 – Pinch runner
  • 先発 – Starting pitcher
  • 中 – Middle reliever
  • セ – Setup man
  • 抑 – Closer

Settings

Coming soon…

Exhibition Game

Japanese for comparison:

Prospi Shop

Japanese for comparison:

  • Player Awakening – Spend points to power up specific players on the default roster. Make your favorite player or team into the ideal version of themselves.
  • Unlockable Items – The thing I’m almost always using when I go here. Use points to unlock new stadiums, a few mode features, and former NPB players, separated into different lists for current coaches, retired legends, and current MLB Japanese players. To see an unlockable player’s name in English, press move to their button then press Triangle, then L1 to go to the Profile tab.
  • Consumable Items – Boost items to make your life easier, split up by mode.
  • Online Shop – Boost items for the online modes. Option unavailable if you are not online in-game.
  • DLC Items – Purchase additional content, mostly cheering section songs for specific teams or players. Option unavailable if you are not online in-game.
  • Prospi Translation – Another menu translation site, including tips on buying the game on Steam
  • Spirits Translation – Not yet updated for the newest game, but this is a detailed site for translation help with the older games in the series.
  • game8.jp – (in Japanese) Not much detail yet for the new game, but over time this site should have detailed guides for each mode.
  • Special abilities translation guide – Made for Pawapuro, but very similar for Prospi. A translation guide by tweav to player ability names and effects.